I write music in Garageband and sometimes the system gets so laggy that there is a ten second delay when clicking on anything in the application.

Now, I have looked up Apple's Help on optimizing Garageband, but that really didn't help.

I also notice that in some video files there are hiccups. Call of Duty 2 also seems laggy at certain points, but this could be the "feel" of the game, when there's massive artillery barrages happening.

I have had Macs for years and tinker with them, but I work in a Windows environment and am way more familiar with PCs.

Is 2GB enough RAM? I would think it is, I really don't want to upgrade this anymore right now.

Sorry, forgot to say- I have repaired/verified permissions, verified the disk, I have an app that actually removes all the junk left over from programs that get uninstalled, I followed a long list of things to optimize OSX from Xlab(can't remember the link offhand)

I don't think that it's a problem with the memory chips themselves since it is only happening in two apps. I have no problems with iMovie or iDVD when I make these huge home movies with pics, clips, and audio.

I still can't completely verify the Call of Duty lag, but it's Garageband that just comes to a halt. I haven't found that much on people having the same issue.

I did a bit of digging around and can't find much with similar Garage Band problems. I realize this thread has gone on for a long time, is there any change in your Mac's behavior? The two comments I got from Garage Band freaks are to delete everything related to GB and reinstall it. Second was questions about how big the files are. Do smaller files behave badly also?
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Well, I will definitely try to reinstall. I just reformatted my harddrive a two months ago and it still does this, it's happened since I got GB last year or two years ago. I use all software tracks, I very rarely plug an instrument into it and I don't think it is fully meant to be like that.

I have to check file size when I get home. I kow theat they are typically 5-7 tracks running about 2 minutes long. Which seems like it shouldn't lag like that, plus it doesn't always lag, making it harder to troubleshoot.

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